28 stories tagged fbi, newest first.
251 points by Bender | 148 comments
KrebsOnSecurity report that federal investigators suspect a U.S. ransomware negotiation firm executive helped run the ShinyHunters group's extortion website.
69 points by speckx | 15 comments
KrebsOnSecurity report that a Jordanian teen suspected of leading ShinyHunters was detained while extorting a former Boeing business unit and is cooperating with the FBI.
775 points by spenvo | 561 comments
404 Media article reporting hackers' claims that they breached the FBI and obtained data on all FBI employees.
412 points by cwwc | 304 comments
New York Times article reporting the FBI arrest of CIA official David Rush, found with $40 million in gold bars, charged with inflating credentials to obtain military leave pay.
463 points by root-parent | 195 comments
Prism news article reporting that Amazon, Facebook, ICE, and the FBI have access to Seattle Shield, a private intelligence-sharing network run by Seattle police.
542 points by 01-_- | 278 comments
9to5Mac article reporting that the FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by using stored notification data.
644 points by speckx | 255 comments
Blog post by Sam Bent examining 13 US government mobile apps, such as the White House, FBI and FEMA apps, for tracking SDKs, ads and excessive permissions.
389 points by m-hodges | 490 comments
Reuters report that Iran-linked hackers breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and published excerpts online, per a DOJ official.
392 points by jbegley | 143 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that FBI director Kash Patel confirmed the bureau buys commercial location data to track US citizens, prompted by questioning from Sen. Wyden.
347 points by sedatk | 161 comments
404 Media news article reporting that Proton Mail provided data that helped the FBI identify an anonymous Stop Cop City protester.
453 points by wizardforhire | 197 comments
Les Earnest's 1988 RISKS post recounting how a childhood cipher code earned him an FBI record and complicated his later security clearance.
522 points by robin_reala | 436 comments
404 Media article reporting the FBI was unable to access a Washington Post reporter's iPhone because Apple's Lockdown Mode was enabled.
850 points by duxup | 1178 comments
News report that the FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal group chats used to track ICE activity; the captured page shows an MS NOW Maddowblog post.
505 points by blacktulip | 299 comments
Windows Central article reporting Microsoft confirmed it will hand BitLocker encryption recovery keys stored in the cloud to the FBI under a valid legal order.
971 points by bookofjoe | 607 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker encryption recovery keys to unlock suspects' laptops.
765 points by echelon_musk | 465 comments
Guardian news article reporting that FBI agents searched Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Virginia home and seized devices in a classified materials inquiry.
1714 points by immibis | 426 comments
AdGuard DNS blog post investigating suspicious complaints and bailiff demands pressuring it to block Archive.today amid an FBI subpoena of the site's registrar.
907 points by Projectiboga | 456 comments
Heise news article reporting that the FBI obtained a court order forcing domain provider Tucows to hand over user data about the operator of Archive.today.
886 points by heavyset_go | 284 comments
A Reddit r/TOR post about a man jailed for three years after refusing FBI demands to decrypt his Tor node; the captured page is a Reddit network-policy block.
365 points by 1337p337 | 117 comments
A blog post from the Free Speech Extremist fediverse instance describing how it traced FBI-contracted scrapers collecting its data and how the FBI processes it.
815 points by eterps | 609 comments
News report on the FBI arresting Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on charges of obstructing an immigration arrest.
825 points by JaimeThompson | 332 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.
358 points by walterbell | 152 comments
Reason article reporting that a federal appeals court ruled the FBI's seizure of safe-deposit boxes violated the Fourth Amendment.
348 points by repelsteeltje | 94 comments
Techdirt article on FBI Director Wray admitting the agency rarely has probable cause when performing backdoor searches of NSA Section 702 collections.
321 points by freedomben | 123 comments
EFF Deeplinks post arguing the FBI's misuse of Section 702 surveillance powers shows it cannot be trusted with the authority ahead of reauthorization.
446 points by nabla9 | 134 comments
The Register article on a declassified FISA court opinion showing the FBI misused Section 702 warrantless search powers over 278,000 times in 2020–2021.
341 points by impish9208 | 181 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting the FBI improperly searched a foreign-intelligence database for information on Jan. 6 rioters and George Floyd protesters, per the FISA court.
352 points by VagueMag | 164 comments
SpyTalk Substack article reporting court-filed interviews in which FBI agents claim the CIA concealed information about a failed recruitment effort tied to 9/11.